Remember a few weeks ago we went apple picking and brought home over a hundred pounds of apples? Last week we went back and picked another 60! We now have enough applesauce to have it with dinner twice a week from now until March, and fillings for 14 apple pies. We love pies, but I don’t love how labor intensive they are. So this year we decided to mass produce crusts and pie fillings. We prefer the taste and texture…
We haven’t taken on many new projects as of late; as I wrote about recently our focus has shifted to doing fewer things well. We are continuing to milk the goats, tend the chickens and rabbits, and homeschool. We also homestead in other ‘little’ ways. We cook from scratch, we knit and sew, we cut our boys’ hair ourselves …. anything where you’re not hiring someone out or buying something pre-made is certainly homesteading. Rachel has been a rockstar in…
Things you don’t know until you have a homestead: it’s amazing what a relief it is to move young poultry out of the upstairs bathroom and into the barn. They’re not exactly smelly, but the odor from their food is kind of odd, they kick shavings around, and they take up space. And the bathroom is an awfully private room to have to share, even if they are just chicks. This is the fourth (ish?) time we’ve had young poultry…